Mar 29, 2018
KoreanAmericanHeritage.com presents KAHP Episode 1: The First Korean Americans. Who were the first Korean Americans? This episode we explore first the history of what was going on in Korea and who were the first Americans that entered Korea. We go over the history of the American missionaries and their involvement of bringing the Koreans over to America. And later investigate the very first Koreans to set foot in the United States.
KAHP Episode 1 Notes:
First americans to arrive to Korea: Missionaries
Captain Robert W. Schufeldt and the USS Wachusetts
(Schufeldt Treaty) Korea Treaty of 1882
King Gojong of the Korean Empire
Korean Legation Building in Washington D.C.
Philip Jaisohn Seo Jae Pil Other Reference
The Passing of Korea by Homer Hulbert
John Nevius and the Nevius Plan
Scarlet and the Beast Two faces of the Freemasonry by John Daniels
The Korean Frontier in America: Immigrants to Hawaii, 1896-1910 by Wayne Patterson
Intro music credited to Ban-Jang Kim of Windy
City.
Logo designed by Minsoo Kim.
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